Dr Peter Watt

School of Languages and Cultures

Senior Lecturer

p.watt@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0544

Full contact details

Dr Peter Watt
School of Languages and Cultures
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Research interests

Peter’s interests include US imperialism in Latin America, Latin American and Iberian music, the media and freedom of expression and social movements in Latin America.

He is interested in supervising research students working on US/Latin American relations, Latin American music and social movements and representations of Latin America in the media.

Publications

Books

  • Watt P & Zepeda R (2012) Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy. Zed Books. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Pansters W, Smith B & Watt P (Eds.) (2017) Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human rights, the public sphere and justice. London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Watt P (2010) Saving History from Oblivion in Guerrero. MON REV, 61(10), 50-58. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Watt P (2010) Mexico’s Secret Dirty War. Sincronía. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Watt P (2009) The Invisible Tyranny of the Mexican Media: Tlatelolco and Beyond. Sincronía. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Watt P & Zepeda R (2014) Perspectives of Decriminalization and Legalization of Illicit Drugs In Rosen J & Zepeda R (Ed.), Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas: Trends in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 223-232). Maryland: Lexington Books. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jones GA & Watt P (2014) Violence and Insecurity in Mexico In West J (Ed.), South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2015 London: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Watt P () The Legalization Debate In Zepeda R & Rosen J (Ed.), Cooperation and the War on Drugs: Trends in the 21st Century Lexington Press RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities

Dr. Peter Watt teaches modules on Latin American history, politics and culture and on Latin American and Iberian music.

You can listen to the latest project completed with his final year students here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/65YXhhEyMRjd1uU5ruzCBC?si=U3qTjrCnRiirwRrTbPlHeg